Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upstairs and wait. When a military aide appears, escorting the Ambassador, Major Domo Hoover will put them in the Green Room, go aloft again to bring the President down to the Blue Room, open the Green Room door, bow in the Peruvian, wait, lead the Peruvian out to his motor, bow him away...
Said the Rev. Combe: "Our plan is, I know, a bit amateurish but with a few motor cars (which we hope will be given us) and a small fleet of fast motor boats (which we are trying to get) we hope to reach even the most neglected and hardened rum runners...
When the Chicago World's Fair opens in 1933 it will disclose a synthetic metropolis eight square miles in area, as colorful as the vanished palaces of Carthage, as modern in design as a straight-eight motor. These qualities are assured by a commission of eight architects who long ago for sook archaeology to create skyscrapers: Harvey Wiley Corbett (Chairman), Ralph T. Walker and Raymond M. Hood, of Manhattan; John A. Holabird, Edward H. Bennett and Daniel H. Burnham of Chica go; Arthur Brown Jr., of San Francisco; Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia...
...Geddes horse-racing game was one of his most famed. It occupied an entire floor of his studio. The miniature race track was 20 feet long, lined with real grandstands. Twenty mechanical horses ran at one time, drawn by invisible threads from specially built, sensitive electric motors. Each motor had a rheostat, for speed variations. When a race was about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were...
...disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from the collapse of the Florida boom and the increase in motor traffic...